Chapter 353 - The Real Past

At the same time, in the depths of the clouds, a warship is rapidly diving towards the bottom, it is the narwhal that previously fought with Chen Fan and his group.
At this moment, the cockpit of the warship is filled with alarm sounds.
As the driver of the warship's single horn whale, Sada Hikomasa is diving down, and the alarm is caused by the warship itself diving too deep.
"Wait, Sada, something's not right." Beside him, Benkei is anxiously watching the instruments.
Ignoring Benkei's warning, Satahiko turned his gaze to Yoshitsune not far away. "Yoshitsune, how deep are we now?"
"28,000 meters deep, Yoshitsune has reached the pressure limit," replied Yoshitsune in a deep voice.
"No, at this rate, even we will..." Benkei's face changed at the words.
"We're almost through the sea of clouds. Just hold on until then," Saidahiko remained unfazed.
"But..."
Upon hearing Benkei's words, Satoshihiko interrupted without any mercy.
"What do we do now? Just ignore him?"
At this moment, everyone except Zhen in the cockpit was present.
The previous explosion just happened to rescue several people, and the only unfortunate thing was that Zujuren was too far away from the Narwhal to be rescued.
Upon hearing Satahiko's question, Benkei's expression became tangled. "It's true..."
Pay no attention to Benkei, Sadatahiko stared firmly at the scenery on the display screen in the cockpit, muttering to himself.
"Just a little more, just a little more..."
As if in response to him, in the next instant, the unicorn whale smoothly passed through the sea of clouds and entered the bottom layer of the Land of Mors.
“太好了。”神色一松佐田彦振奋道。
看着画面中传来的那些高楼大厦死寂般地耸立在地表，弁庆满脸的震惊，“这里就是莫尔斯之地吗……”
"Wow, it's really surprising..."
"First time seeing this..."
Hearing the exclamations of several people, Mie, who had been standing silently by the cabin door, spoke up: "There's nothing to be surprised about, this place only collects ruins."
Just as the other three turned their curious eyes to Mie, he paused and continued, "This is a mirror that reflects the sins of humanity."
"Is this the sins of humanity... So, there were humans here before," muttered Sadatake.
"It will eventually become like this above." Mie looked at the scene on the screen with a sneer.
"So, is it really..." Real already hesitated, saying.
"Is this really okay?" For the desperation and deathly silence revealed by Morse's place, Zota Hiko showed a hesitant expression for the first time.
"Sada, you..."
Facing Benkei's accusation, Sadahiko explained, "I don't want to contradict the truth, but... not everything is like that, right?"
"It's not strange for you to think that way, but it doesn't matter. You'll come to a conclusion eventually. As long as you don't regret it then, isn't that enough?" Mie said, walking up to Sadahiko and putting her hand on his shoulder.
……
At this time, Chen Fan and the others were shocked to see the Ira giant beast in the distance.
"Let's go..." Zhen said inexplicably.
"The giant beast of Ira, it seems that you are quite interested in it," Qinglong sighed.
"Everyone cares about it, right..." Guang looked at the other person impatiently.
"Alright, these are all in the past, let's continue our journey," Chen Fan timely interrupted the topic.
Afterwards, the group continued to move towards the direction of the World Tree, and everywhere they walked was filled with those monsters and scorched earth.
At this moment, the group happened to be walking along the body of the giant Yirah beast, which is also the necessary path to the World Tree.
“四处都变成了焦炭……”迦具土看着周围的环境惊叹道。
“这是天之圣杯互相战斗的痕迹。”青龙解释道。
“一定是一场非常激烈的战斗……”劳拉不由地猜测着。
Suddenly, Nia stopped in her tracks, "Huh, what are these?"
"The embryos of the colossal beasts of Ira, in the ancient kingdom of Ira, only a small number of people knew of their existence here," explained Zhen calmly.
Not far from where everyone was standing, some oval-shaped egg-like objects were scattered among the ruins, many of which were damaged, revealing the strange creatures inside that had not yet formed.
“Indeed, there is such a place…” Qinglong nodded.
“Are these creatures inside the eggs the so-called exotic blades?” Laura walked into a damaged egg and looked at the strange creatures inside.
"It's different from the Evolved Blades, it looks very much like the Behemoths." Chen Fan squatted down and observed carefully.
"These are the Evolved Blades in the process of turning into Behemoths, the Behemoths generate core crystals inside their bodies. You should have seen it at least once, the gods of the Evolved Blades are not eternal either. The Evolved Blades born from the Behemoths, when their life fire burns out, will return to their birth Behemoths, and the Evolved Blades of the Behemoths will eventually turn into Behemoths themselves."
He explained patiently to everyone.
"Is this true? Will we eventually become like this too?" It was obvious that Jia Gudou didn't know the secret.
"Light? Is what Zhen said right?" Laura turned her gaze to the light beside her.
At this moment, the Light God said inexplicably, "This is the... law... of the world..."
"Becoming a giant beast will cause the loss of memories when it was an Exoblade, and it is the same when returning to the core. These Exoblades, due to the death of the giant beast mother, Eira, will only meet their end together with her." Zhen said as he looked at the scattered giant beast embryos on the ground.
During the conversation, everyone unavoidably gained a lot of knowledge and secrets in public.
But this is not very helpful for everyone at the moment, so they set off again after gaining the experience.
Quickly pass through this embryo-filled place, and soon the group entered the interior of the Ira Giant Beast.
By this time, more and more ancient buildings appeared here, and these buildings were completely different from the modern ones outside the land of Morse, mostly made of rocks.
After passing through a channel, the crowd arrived inside a great hall.
On the walls of the great hall, there are many murals carved.
"The core produces the strange blade, the strange blade turns into the giant divine beast, and then the giant divine beast breeds countless lives..."
“Eventually, a new core will be born for the giant divine beast…”
“A life cycle called the Blade of the Abyss…”
Listening to everyone's analysis, Zhen opened his mouth again, "This is the world law designated by the gods."
“也是古王国伊拉的信仰对象。”光。
“古王国伊拉是一个……敬畏巨神兽的伟大，希望达成从中诞生的异刃和人类共存的国家。然而，人类却不希望如此……那是在和灭的战争划下休止符，你和阿德尔一起离开伊拉之后不久发生的事情。那个男人……麦佩尼把我们……”
Upon hearing the truth, the crowd gained a rough understanding of what had happened back then.
"What exactly did he do?" Guang asked relentlessly.
"It was not the Holy Grail of the Heavens that truly destroyed this country... it was the Akadia Church..." At this point, the tone of the truth was filled with hatred.
Although they had speculations, the group finally had a rough understanding of Rai's encounter from the true story.
And finally, this time, Zhen didn't stay silent anymore. Everyone began to piece together the truth of the events from his story.
500 years ago, during the Great War of Extermination, Arcadia stood up and organized a resistance army led by Ira.
After the victory in the Holy Grail War, although Ira's giant beast perished in the war and sunk into the Cloud Sea.
However, the Kingdom of Ira did not perish, but a fairly large number of people escaped.
And it was these escaped individuals, including True and Laura, and other partners.
However, the situation did not end there. Just when the group of people who had narrowly escaped death had not yet caught their breath, Arcadia launched a war against these people who had risked their lives to save the world.
As Iraq had just experienced a major war and had not yet recovered, they naturally had no way to resist the long-planned Arcadia.
Therefore, the Iraqi side naturally suffered a crushing defeat.
In the midst of the mass exodus, Zhen and the then-Laura were among them, and they were given special care.
But in a moment of negligence, Laura was seriously injured while protecting Zhen from an attack.
At the dying moment, the feelings and bonds between these two Blade and Soul users are finally facing a life-and-death separation.
Neither side wants to lose the other, but according to the rules of the world, once Laura dies, Zhen will also revert to the core and lose memory.
Finally, Zhen used the ancient Eucandium technique he found in the ancient books to dig out Laura's heart and place it on his own heart.
As a result, Zhen became a cannibal, with Laura's heart still inside him, indirectly indicating the couple's wish at the time, to never forget each other and always be together.
As everyone listened to his genuine narrative and saw him struggling to contain his sadness, they all fell into silence.
The flowing light shimmered and the flames followed, completing the exchange of light.
At this moment, she said with a sorrowful expression, "After we left, something like this happened..."
After Maipeni, who feared the power of the holy grail of heaven, disappeared, he wanted to annihilate the holy grail of heaven along with the remnants of Ira, but at that time you were no longer there, and we who remained there were cruelly killed. No...even if you are no longer there, that guy...humans will do the same thing. Chosen by the gods, eventually becoming giant beasts, equivalent to the entire world for us, let them feel afraid.
"Do you think his so-called reason for saving the world is true? Ridiculous! The real reason that guy wants to go to the amusement park is to obtain divine power. To eradicate the Excaliburs and the Gigantic Titans from this world." at this moment, it truly revealed McPenny's true purpose.
Is this the reason why he is helping us and protecting the Holy Grail of the heavens…
At this moment, Chen Fan also realized that they had become Maipeni's stepping stones.
Although he had known earlier that Maipeni was probably not a good person, he and Maipeni should have a mutually beneficial relationship.
But his tyrannical approach is obviously very unpopular.
At the same time, it also thoroughly exposes McPenny as a racist, the so-called idea of "those who are not of my race are different in heart" is thoroughly implemented.
"But that's not a reason for you to destroy humanity and the whole world, although there are people like Macbeth in the human race, there are also many kind and peaceful people."
Laura looked at Zhen angrily.
"Stop talking nonsense, it's your freedom to think like that, but I will fulfill our purpose, to eliminate the gods who made us like this, and the humans who are under the protection of the gods. We are not props for the survival of humans..." Zhen said without mercy, with a determined look.
"In that case, our course of action is also set, to stop you, including the ambitious MacPherson," Chen Fan also stated his purpose without reservation.